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White House officials said Thursday that President Trump will sign an executive order this afternoon on campus free speech and college transparency.
The executive order essentially directs federal agencies to ensure colleges are following existing requirements....

Threats by transgender rights activists to disrupt an academic conference on prison reform over the organizer’s allegedly “transphobic” views on how inmates should be segregated have led to its cancellation.
More than 300 people were expected...

A series of recent reported incidents have raised the specter of tensions between faculty members and the international students they teach.
The most recent such incident involved the resignation of a professor from the University of...

Trigger warnings don’t help students, and they might even hurt those grappling with serious trauma. That’s the upshot of a new study on trigger warnings published in Clinical Psychological Science.
Concerned about the use of trigger...

For a college or university, unveiling a new logo is always a risky proposition -- students and alumni get attached to the old one, and any change feels wrong.
In 2012, the University of California system...

Two months after being unceremoniously ushered from a public research university struggling with Confederate history, Carol L. Folt landed at a private research university out west grappling with its own set of challenges.
Folt, who in...

Learning objectives are important to your course because they describe in details what knowledge and skills your students will learn in a lesson/module/unit. Your class activities should NOT ...
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TILT Tip: Blackboard Reminder – Gradebook
Be sure to maximize the functionality of the Blackboard Gradebook by entering "0" in the gradebook for students that have not completed assignments.
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